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Shima, Fred – 1970
In understanding comprehension as the active processing of reading material, and in assuming that certain key content is stored in the memory, then mnemonic cues could be one important means of recalling this stored information. Since associative words apparently have high mnemonic cue value, they have been the subject of numerous investigations.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes
Thorndyke, Perry W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
This study examined how people use inferences to aid comprehension of connected discourse. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes
Keenan, Janice M. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Recognition memory for statements made during a luncheon discussion group was tested in an incidental learning paradigm after thirty hours. Statements high in interactional content yielded excellent memory for surface form and meaning; statements low in interactional content showed no memory for surface form and less memory for content. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Memory
Royer, James M.; Cable, Glenn W. – 1974
The purpose of the experiment was to test the prediction that non-specific facilitated learning of a second prose passage will occur in the situation where an initial passage read by the subjects contained concrete referents designed to increase the comprehension of a difficult to understand second passage. Two-hundred and forty subjects…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, College Students, Connected Discourse, Higher Education
Carroll, John B. – 1971
This review, based on a survey of more than 1200 items in the research literature, begins by attempting to outline a theory of language comprehension and learning from language. A lengthy chapter is devoted to problems in the measurement of comprehension and of learning from connected discourse. Also considered, in successive chapters, are the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Connected Discourse